Feedback on electricity usage for home energy management: A social experiment in a local village of cold region

Applied Energy

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-168

  Matsui, Kanae ^a,d   Ochiai, Hideya ^b,c   Yamagata, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior modification; Electricity consumption data collection in a cold district; Feedback visualization; Saving electricity consumption by households

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATIONS; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENTS; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DATA SET; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL WARMING; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 84897605328     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.049     Document Type: Article

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